The SDL_pulseaudio_hack.sh in the SDL-1.2.12-5.fc8 RPM doesn't work when you use more then architecture (e.g. i386 and x86_64), the problem is this line in the script: [ -e /usr/lib*/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so ] && export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=esd This line gets two results for "/usr/lib*/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so" when you install the 32bit and the 64bit version of the "alsa-plugins-pulseaudio" RPM (for example skype needs the 32bit alsa-plugins-pulseaudio RPM on a 64bit system) and when you get more then two results the scripts fails with the message (every single time you open a shell): bash: [: /usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so: binary operator expected I changed the line to this: [ -e /usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so -o -e /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so ] && export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=esd this way it works at least for i386 and x86_64.
Btw. I'm not alone with this problem, as you can see here http://forum.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=176265
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 428577 ***